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Short GP consultations ‘hampering quality of care’

7th February 2017

The short amount of time GPs spend consulting with patients may be holding back the quality of care they receive, according to a new report.

A BBC News report has highlighted data from the Health Foundation, based on information provided by GPs from 11 countries, showing that the amount of time spent by UK GPs with patients is the lowest in the developed world.

The average length of a UK GP consultation is only ten minutes, with data indicating that 92 percent of consultations in Britain are completed in under 15 minutes, compared with 27 percent in other countries.

Organisations such as the Royal College of GPs and the British Medical Association have acknowledged that this is a problem, while expressing concerns that rising workloads and chronic understaffing issues are making the issue impossible to remedy.

RCGP president Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard said: "The typical patient has a range of multiple conditions. They can have diabetes and heart disease and some moderate depression; patients can be on ten medicines. You can't possibly provide good care in ten minutes to these sort of patients."

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